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The Unknown Quantity
by JOHNS W. E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hamilton plain red boards with a cream paper title label lettered in black to spine, tail of spine sunned where dust jacket is missing piece, lightly browned endpapers and some mild foxing to page edges, dust jacket unclipped but has heavily sunned and rubbed spine with loss at ends, rear panel has once been partially stuck to the board due to humidity but now it is free but has left some minor paper residue to the board, there is some offset red dye from the boards to the rear dust jacket panel as well as some pen doodlings ( see scan), tidy used copy, undated assumed first edition, by the author of Biggles. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006803
- Title
- The Unknown Quantity
- Author
- JOHNS W. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Biggles w e Johns British Adventure Mystery Fiction first Edition Rare Collectable
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIME & THRILLER Fiction;
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About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
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- Jacket
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Edges
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- Offset
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